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Which actors have just been announced for Ant-Man and Agents of SHIELD? What’s going to happen when Arrow and The Flash return? Where can you get your Guardians of the Galaxy Blu-ray signed by James Gunn? Does Gunn have good things to say on the film’s director commentary? Want to read about the first two episodes of Agent Carter? Did you miss the big fight on Arrow this week? What does the Atom suit look like? Is there a new rumor going around about Doctor Strange and Avengers: Age of Ultron? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits.

Filming is done and a new press release reveals Jordi Molla is in Ant-Man.

If you’re in LA Friday, James Gunn is going to be signing copies of Guardians of the Galaxy at Amoeba Records in Hollywood.

The previews for the January episodes of Arrow and Flash are online. That’s one above, the other is here.

Blair Underwood is set to join the cast of Agents of SHIELD.

Comic Book revealed Skottie Young‘s variant cover to Uncanny Avengers #1.

Read the synopses of the first two episodes of Agent Carter.

Launch trailer for a new Marvel game called Contest of Champions.

Speculation is running rampant that the timing of Avengers: Age of Ultron reshoots and Benedict Cumberbatch‘s Doctor Strange casting is no coincidence. Maybe he cameos.

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Sega just realized that it has a bunch of video game properties that could potentially be adapted to film, TV, and digital series. OK, maybe the company didn’t just realize this, but it is just putting plans in motion to exploit titles such as Shinobi and Altered Beast. At this point we don’t know what will end up as film, and what might be on TV as live-action or animation, but Sega is taking control of its own development efforts just as UbiSoft did before it.

Variety has some details, noting that the heavy lifting is being done by a company called Stories International, which has now recruited former Break Media executive Evan Cholfin as director of development and production.

It sounds like Stories International is using decades-old ideas of exploiting characters and concepts via TV shows which can be used as ads for other products. (In the way that Transformers, for example, was originally a 30-minute commercial for the toy line.) Stories International is a “joint venture of Japanese gamemaker Sega and Hakuhodo DY Group, the world’s seventh-largest advertising agency” — in other words the point is very much to put Sega characters back in front of the eyes of potential new audiences.

The company was formed in 2011 to “produce films, TV shows and entertainment for digital platforms,” and Cholfin has just been hired to make plans a reality.

Variety reports that Stories is working on live-action and animated series based on a variety of Sega games: Altered Beast, Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Rise of Nightmares, and Crazy Taxi. Rights are also in place for exploitations of Virtua Fighter and Golden Axe. Precisely how any of these will be turned into shows and/or movies remains to be seen.

Tomoya Suzuki, the head of Stories, said,

With his impeccable taste and experience developing and producing entertainment in nearly every format imaginable, Evan is the unique executive to revitalize and canonize our partners’ brands by working with Hollywood to create stories that will last for centuries.

 

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The UK series Broadchurch is at a strange nexus right now. The US remake of the first season, Gracepoint, is wrapping up tonight. David Tennant stars in that… just as he did in the UK original. Perfectly timed to that series conclusion is this first Broadchurch season 2 trailer, which shows that the second season takes place in the same town in which the events of season 1 went down, but there are still quite a few lingering problems and uncertainties. (Update: there are two trailers, in fact — one from the UK, and a US-specific one.)

Additionally, we’ve got the trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas Special, dubbed Last Christmas.

First up is Broadchurch, which will return to ITV in the UK on January 5, and will air on BBC America in the US beginning on February 4.

The UK trailer is first, via ITV:

And the US trailer via BBC America, with a rather different approach than the UK trailer, but the same dire feeling:

David Tennant and Olivia Colman reprise their roles as Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller when Broadchurch returns for an all new season February 4th, 2015 at 10/9c on BBC America. 

The gripping drama, produced by Kudos and Imaginary Friends Productions, written and created by Chris Chibnall, garnered critical acclaim, sparked widespread discussion on social media and earned a Peabody Award following its premiere in the US last year on BBC AMERICA. With an ensemble cast lead by David Tennant and Olivia Colman, the first season centered on a quiet seaside town following the shocking murder of a young boy and the impact it had on the tight-knit community when everyone becomes a suspect. David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan and Arthur Darvill will reprise their roles. Legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, Academy Award nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste, James D’Arcy, Eve Myles and Phoebe Waller-Bridge join the cast for the second season.

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And then there’s the Doctor Who Christmas Special, dubbed “Last Christmas” and featuring a crazy logline: “Trapped on an arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!”

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From the moment it was announced that Paul Feig would be directing an all-female Ghostbusters rebootquel, fans have been gossiping and speculating about which actresses might star. At the moment, no stars have actually been announced — but now a potential star has gone and outed herself.

Rebel Wilson, who had a supporting role in Feig’s Bridesmaids, revealed she’s already met about a role in the upcoming movie. However, she also stressed that no decisions have been made as of yet. Hit the jump for more Rebel Wilson Ghostbusters 3 chatter.

Update December 11: Jennifer Lawrence says she has also met with Feig. Check out a video below.

Wilson spilled the beans to Matt Lauer on The Today Show. “Look, I have had a meeting, but who knows? They have to look at the script when it’s finished.” She added, “I would even do that without the money truck. I’d do that for free. I probably shouldn’t say that live on TV.”

So it sounds like Sony, Feig, and screenwriter Katie Dippold are seeing who they can get before they nail down the script. Without knowing anything about the script, we can’t say whether she’d be a good fit. But she is very funny. And she’s worked with Feig before, so we already know she fits quite well with his brand of comedy.

Although Feig hasn’t confirmed any casting, it seems like everyone’s been making their own predictions. Basically, Ghostbusters 3 is to comedic actresses right now what Star Wars 7 was to all other actors a year ago — something everyone gets rumored for, asked about, and/or fantasy-cast in.

Melissa McCarthy is considered the odds-on favorite to star, since she stars in most of his movies recently, but she insists she hasn’t been cast yet. For his part, former Ghostbuster Bill Murray has suggested that Kristen Wiig, Linda Cardellini, and Emma Stone should shoulder the proton packs. And Ellen DeGeneres, Lena Dunham, and Bill Hader have gone on record saying they want in.

Update: MTV UK has a video surveying various actors about the potential cast for the new Ghostbusters, in which Jennifer Lawrence says she’s met with Paul Feig over dinner. She doesn’t specify that it was for Ghostbusters, but that is the subject under discussion, so. Stick around for the end where Lawrence is also amazed that there’s a Ghostbusters 2, which is really the best part of this video.

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Inherent Vice begins its limited rollout tomorrow, and the excellent and unusual film should be on your must-see list for the end of the year. (Or for early January, if you’re in a market that doesn’t get it this month.) As prep for that release there has been a new trailer, a handful of clips, and now writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson has taken a minute to talk the New York Times through one scene in the film. The upshot of that is, you can listen in. Check out a brief Inherent Vice scene commentary from the director below.

Thanks to the New York Times ‘Anatomy of a Scene’ column for this video. I could use a lot more of this, frankly, but it’s a great start.

The film was shot on locations around Los Angeles, with a minimum use of computer-generated embellishment and cleanup. Anderson told HitFix,

There is some digital trickery in the film. Outside Parker Center, when Joaquin gets knocked down… it’s hard to admit because I don’t like doing it. It feels like cheating, but the crosswalks are wildly different now. Street signs and stop signs and crosswalks, all that kind of gear is completely different now. … The crosswalk is brick now. There’s a totally different color to the brick, so they just took the pavement and made it straight. And there’s another one, the [redacted] is obviously a digital effect. That and the Parker Center, and that’s it. And that’s IT. Everything else is just framing and shooting in a way that keeps that shit out.

I’ve redacted a bit there, just for those who don’t want any vague spoilers, not that the detail would really ruin anything. But what the hell, we’ll be safe.

If you want a bit more info on the film’s Los Angeles locations, you can check out the great LA Weekly piece, which details several of the specific locations and how they were used. And we have our own (mostly) LA movie primer to prep you for Inherent Vice.

 

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